Albert Wallace HEATHCOTE MM

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HEATHCOTE, Albert Wallace

Service Number:	734
Enlisted:	22 August 1914
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	3rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Hume Creek, NSW, 1895
Home Town:	Culcairn, Greater Hume Shire, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Lineman
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 3 May 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Culcairn & District Great War Roll of Honor, Culcairn War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

22 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 734, 3rd Infantry Battalion
20 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 734, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 734, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney
3 May 1917:	Involvement Corporal, 734, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 734 awm_unit: 3 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-05-03

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Mrs. T. Heathcote, of Inverness, Culcairn, has received a communication from the officer-in-charge of the Base Records Office in Melbourne, confirming the report published in the 'London Gazette' that 'His Majesty the King had been graciously pleased to confer for conspicuous bravery the Military Medal on her son. Corporal Albert Wallace Heathcote, Albert was through Gallipoli, and has since been promoted to the rank of sergeant. Cyril and Bruce Heathcote, two brothers, are also on active service.

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